<Emphasis Type="Italic">Sammelbesprechung:</Emphasis> Demokratie in Ostasien

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Sammelbesprechung: Demokratie in Ostasien

     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">Sheldon S. Wolin:</Emphasis> Tocqueville between two worlds: The making of a political and theoretical life

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Sheldon S. Wolin: Tocqueville between two worlds: The making of a political and theoretical life Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press 2001, 650 S., $ 24,95

     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">Daphné Josselin,William Wallace</Emphasis> (eds.): Non-state actors in world politics

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Daphné Josselin, William Wallace (eds.): Non-state actors in world politics Hampshire/New York: Palgrave Publishers 2001, 294 S., Paperback ￡ 16,99 (€ 28,90)

     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">Gustav Schmidt</Emphasis> (Hg.): A history of NATO — The first fifty years. 3 Bde

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Gustav Schmidt (Hg.): A history of NATO — The first fifty years. 3 Bde Basingstroke/Hampshire/New York: Palgrave 2001, 1440 S., ￡ 165,-

     

Notes on contributors

Robyn Eckersley: Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Arne Naess: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle. Translated and revised by David Rothenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

M. Annette Jaimes, ed.: The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance. Race and Resistance Series, Boston, South End Press, 1992.

Alexander Wilson: The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992.     

Merit,measurement, medical murder and modernity

Michael Burleigh, Death and Deliverance. ‘Euthanasia’ in Germany c. 1900–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xviii+382pp. Notes. Bibl. Mus. £14.95 pbk.

Götz Aly, Peter Chroust and Christian Pross, Cleansing the Fatherland. Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene, trans, from the German by Belinda Cooper. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xvi+296pp. Notes. Illus. £14.00 pbk.

Stefan Kühl, The Nazi Connection. Eugenics, American Racism and German National Socialism. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii+166pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £14.95.

N. J. Mackintosh (ed.), Cyril Burt. Fraud or Framed?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. xii+156pp. Notes. Ind. £19.99. Adrian Wooldridge, Measuring the Mind. Education and Psychology in England, c. 1860–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. x+448pp. £45.00.     

Coca Eradication in the Andes: Lessons from Bolivia

Al Gedicks: The New Resources Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations. Boston: South End Press, 1993.

Richard Hofrichter, ed.: Toxics Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice . Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1993.

Raymond Bonner: At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Theodore Steinberg: Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.     

Hieronymus Bosch (aka Jeroen van Aken), Eco-Revolutionary

Moishe Postone: Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Gerard Colby with Charlotte Dennett: Thy Will Be Done — The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1995.

Robin A. Butlin and Neil Roberts, eds.: Ecological Relations in Historical Times. Oxford U.K.: Blackwell, 1995.     

Reviews

Messages and Meanings: An Introduction to Semiotics Marcel Danesi, Canadian Scholars' Press Toronto 1994

Australian Popular Culture Ian Craven (ed), Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1994

Identifying Australia in Postmodern Times Livio Dobrez (ed), Bibliotech Canberra 1994

Text and Context Bev Derewianka & Louise Ravelli (EDGA 976) PAGE SBS University of Wollongong 1995     

Resistance,compliance, adulation: Life in the third Reich and afterwards

Michael Geyer and John W. Boyer (eds.), Resistance against the Third Reich, 1933–1990. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. viii+357pp. Notes. Ind. £12.75 (pbk.).

Martin Kitchen, Nazi Germany at War. London: Longman, 1994. 329pp. Bibl. Ind. £13.99 (pbk).

Tim Mason, Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class, ed. Jane Caplan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x+361 pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £13.95 (pbk).     

Review essay

The road to the racial millenium: German medical science from 1870 to 1945

Paul Hoedeman, Hitler or Hippocrates:Medical Experiments and Euthanasia in the Third Reich. Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1991. 260pp. £12.95.

Michael H. Kater, Doctors Under Hitler. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. 426pp. $35.75.

Kolloquien des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte. Medizin im Nationalsozialismus. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1988. 110pp. DM 24.

Medizin und Gesundheitspolitik in der NS‐Zeit, ed. Norbert Frei. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1 991. Shriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte: Sondernummer. 331 pp. DM 68.

Benno Müller‐Hill, Murderous Science. Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies and Others: Germany 1933–1945. Oxford University Press, 1988. 208pp. £15.

Robert Proctor, Racial Hygiene. Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. 414pp. £25.25.

Paul Weindling, Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 641pp. £55.

Sheila Faith Weiss, Race, Hygiene and National Efficiency. The Eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987. 245pp. $54.     

Short notices

Sourcebook of Korean Civilisation; Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century, edited by Peter H. Lee. Columbia University Press, New York, 1993. xxiv + 750 pp. £32.50. ISBN 0–231–07912–5.

War and Revolution in Japan, edited by Ian Neary. Sandgate Folkstone, Kent: The Japan Library. 1993. x+ 179 pp. £12.99. ISBN 1–873410–08–5.

Crises and Commitments: The Politics and Diplomacy of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1965, by Peter Edwards with Gregory Pemberton. Allen & Unwin in Association with the Australian War Memorial, North Sydney, NSW, 1992. xix + 515 pp., illus. £35. ISBN 1–86373–184–9.

Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 1: Ancient Japan, edited by Delmar Brown. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York and Oakleigh, Victoria, 1993. Maps, figures and tables, xiii + 602 pp. £70.

Australia's Business Challenge: South‐East Asia in the 1990s, East Asia Analytical Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs and Austrade, Canberra, ACT, 1992. xlix + 328 pp. ISBN 0–644–25852–7.     

Tyndall's elite

The hidden language of race in British politics Frank Reeves, British Racial Discourse: A Study of British Political Discourse about Race and Race‐Related Matters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. viii +287pp. Appends. Bibl. Inds. £22.50.

Fascism on the periphery: ineffectual and insignificant John D. Brewer, Mosley's Men: The British Union of Fascists in the West Midlands. London: Gower, 1984. xii+159pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £13.50.

Intellectual ‘angst’ of the powerless Stanley Diamond (ed.), ‘The Jewish Question’. A special issue of Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 8, nos. 1 &; 2, October 1983.     

Embodying the Deepest Contradiction: A Rejoinder to Alan Rudy

Andrew Ross: The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature's Debt to Society . London: Verso. 1994.

Alexander Wilson: The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez . Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. 1992.

Simon Schama: Landscape and Memory . New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1994.     

From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland

Gary Ruchwarger, People in Power: Forging a Grassroots Democracy In Nicaragua (South Hadley, MA: Bergin &; Garvey, 1987).

Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature (New York and London: Methuen, 1987).

Paul Buhle, Marxism in the United States: Remapping the History of the American Left (London: Verso, 1987).

Paul Buhle, editor, Popular Culture in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987).

Eric Lichten, Class, Power And Austerity: The New York City Fiscal CRISIS (South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey, 1986).

John Saville, 1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

Jon Elster, An Introduction to Karl Marx (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)

Roy Bhaskar, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation (London: Verso, 1986).

Ellen Frankel Paul et al. eds., Marxism and Liberalism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987).

Peter Manicas, A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences (New York: Blackwell, 1987).     

Reviews

Politics of the Media Ian Ward, Macmillan Melbourne 1995

Art & Social Structure Robert W Witkin, Polity Press Cambridge 1995

On Meaning‐Making: Essays in Semiotics Mieke Bal, Polebridge Press Sonoma California 1994     

Queer zine inter/erupts the endurance of ideas

In the Wake of First Contact. The Eliza Fraser Stories Kay Schaffer Melbourne Cambridge University Press 1995

Youth Cultures: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective Vered Amit‐Talai and Helena Wulff eds London Routledge 1995

Debating Derrida Niall Lucy Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1995     

The Intelligence Paradigm

Ephraim Kam, Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988). Pp.266. $25.00.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland. Susan Rose–Ackerman. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
Reviewed by MITCHELL ORENSTEIN, Syracuse University Multi‐Level Governance. Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 237 pp. £47.50 (cloth).
Reviewed by JULIE M. SIMMONS, University of Guelph Players in the Public Policy Process: Nonprofits as Social Capital and Agents. Herrington J. Bryce. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 288 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
Reviewed by ROBERT C. TURNER, Skidmore College Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality. David P. Varady, ed. New York: State University of New York Press, 2005. 310 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
Reviewed by MARY PATTILLO, Northwestern University Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea. Joseph Wong. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 222 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Reviewed by HUCK‐JU KWON, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea     

Hong Kong between East and West

The Hong Kong Basic Law: Blueprint for ‘Stability and Prosperity’ under Chinese Sovereignty, edited by Ming K. Chan and David J. Clark. (Hong Kong Becoming China Series) M. E. Sharpe, New York, 1991. xv + 311 pp. $45. ISBN 0–87332–835–3.

The China‐Hong Kong Connection: The Key to China's Open‐Door Policy, by Yun‐Wing Sung. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991. xiv + 183 pp. £27.50. ISBN 0–521–38245–9.

The Making of Hong Kong Society: Three Studies of Class Formation in Early Hong Kong, by W. K. Chan. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991. viii + 251 pp. £32.50. ISBN 0–19–827320–7.